Google Genie 3 n'est pas là pour remplacer les studios de jeux vidéo. Mais la Bourse ne l'a pas très bien compris et de grands éditeurs en font les frais.

Google DeepMind vient de lancer le « Project Genie ». Ce prototype de recherche permet de créer, modifier et explorer des « mondes virtuels » de façon interactive à partir de simples instructions.

Waymo espère déployer sa flotte de robotaxis à Londres dès septembre 2026, grâce à une modification de la loi par le gouvernement anglais. Londres deviendrait la première ville en dehors des États-Unis avec les taxis de Google.

L'intelligence artificielle Gemini est désormais pleinement intégrée à Google Chrome, avec un volet latéral pour la solliciter à tout moment. Gemini peut naviguer sur le web à votre place, remplir des formulaires, modifier des images et accéder à vos documents. Des fonctions déjà disponibles pour les abonnés aux États-Unis et qui arriveront dans un second temps en Europe.

Qui ne connaît pas WinRAR ? Le célèbre outil d'archivage de fichiers est très populaire sur Windows. Connu des particuliers, il l'est aussi des pirates. D'ailleurs, ces derniers exploitent une vulnérabilité repérée il y a plusieurs mois.

Et voilà, ce connard de Google marque la *totalité* des applications sur le magasin alternatif IzzyOnDroid (similaire à F-Droid) comme malveillantes.
C'est censé être du "Safe browsing" pour vous protéger, mais Google vous ment. Ils censurent ainsi la concurrence.
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Qui ne connaît pas WinRAR ? Le célèbre outil d'archivage de fichiers est très populaire sur Windows. Connu des particuliers, il l'est aussi des pirates. D'ailleurs, ces derniers exploitent une vulnérabilité repérée il y a plusieurs mois.

Qui ne connaît pas WinRAR ? Le célèbre outil d'archivage de fichiers est très populaire sur Windows. Connu des particuliers, il l'est aussi des pirates. D'ailleurs, ces derniers exploitent une vulnérabilité repérée il y a plusieurs mois.

Quelques jours après le lancement de l'abonnement ChatGPT Go à 8 euros par mois, Google réplique avec Google AI Plus, une formule équivalente qui donne accès à la meilleure version de Gemini et à 200 Go de stockage. Le géant du web continue de mettre la pression sur OpenAI.

La Commission européenne annonce lancer deux nouvelles procédures contre Google. Le but : obliger le géant américain à partager les clés d'Android et ses précieuses données de recherche avec ses rivaux, pour empêcher Gemini de tuer toute concurrence.

Google is adding Gemini-powered "Suggested times" to Google Calendar, automatically scanning attendees' calendars to surface the best meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts. The feature also streamlines rescheduling with one-click alternatives when invitees decline. Digital Trends reports: According to a recent post on the Workspace Updates blog, Gemini in Google Calendar can now help you quickly identify optimal meeting times when creating an event, as long as you have access to the attendees' calendars. The new "Suggested times" feature scans everyone's calendars and highlights the best time slots based on availability, working hours, and potential conflicts, eliminating the need to manually check schedules. Google has also made rescheduling simpler. The company explains that if multiple attendees decline your invite, you'll see a banner in the event showing a time when everyone is available, letting you update the invite with a single click. The feature is being rolled out starting today to eligible Workspace tiers. It will be enabled by default and is expected to reach all eligible users over the next few weeks.

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An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge: In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its content feed [which appears on the leftmost homescreen page of many Android phones and the Google app's homepage]. Google appeared to be backing away from the experiment, but now tells The Verge that its AI headlines in Google Discover are a feature, one that "performs well for user satisfaction." I once again see lots of misleading claims every time I check my phone... For example, Google's AI claimed last week that "US reverses foreign drone ban," citing and linking to this PCMag story for the news. That's not just false — PCMag took pains to explain that it's false in the story that Google links to...! What does the author of that PCMag story think? "It makes me feel icky," Jim Fisher tells me over the phone. "I'd encourage people to click on stories and read them, and not trust what Google is spoon-feeding them." He says Google should be using the headline that humans wrote, and if Google needs a summary, it can use the ones that publications already submit to help search engines parse our work. Google claims it's not rewriting headlines. It characterizes these new offerings as "trending topics," even though each "trending topic" presents itself as one of our stories, links to our stories, and uses our images, all without competent fact-checking to ensure the AI is getting them right... The AI is also no longer restricted to roughly four words per headline, so I no longer see nonsense headlines like "Microsoft developers using AI" or "AI tag debate heats." (Instead, I occasionally see tripe like "Fares: Need AAA & AA Games" or "Dispatch sold millions; few avoided romance.") But Google's AI has no clue what parts of these stories are new, relevant, significant, or true, and it can easily confuse one story for another. On December 26th, Google told me that "Steam Machine price & HDMI details emerge." They hadn't. On January 11th, Google proclaimed that "ASUS ROG Ally X arrives." (It arrived in 2024; the new Xbox Ally arrived months ago.) On January 20th, it wrote that "Glasses-free 3D tech wows," introducing readers to "New 3D tech called Immensity from Leia" — but linking to this TechRadar story about an entirely different company called Visual Semiconductor... Google declined our request for an interview to more fully explain the idea. The site Android Police spotted more inaccurate headlines in December: A story from 9to5Google, which was actually titled 'Don't buy a Qi2 25W wireless charger hoping for faster speeds — just get the 'slower' one instead' was retitled as 'Qi2 slows older Pixels.' Similarly, Ars Technica's 'Valve's Steam Machine looks like a console, but don't expect it to be priced like one' was changed to 'Steam Machine price revealed.' At the time, we believed that the inaccuracies were due to the feature being unstable and in early testing.... Now, Google has stopped calling Discover replacing human-written headlines as an "experiment." "Google buries a 'Generated with AI, which can make mistakes' message under the 'See more' button in the summary," reports 9to5Google, "making it look like this is the publisher's intended headline." While it is obvious that Google has refined this feature over the past couple of months, it doesn't take long to still find plenty of misleading headlines throughout Discover... Another article from NotebookCheck about an Anker power bank with a retractable cable was given a headline that's about another product entirely. A pair of headlines from Tom's Hardware and PCMag, meanwhile, show the two sides of using AI for this purpose. The Tom's Hardware headline, "Free GPU & Amazon Scams," isn't representative of the actual article, which is about someone who bought a GPU from Amazon, canceled their order, and the retailer shipped it anyway. There's nothing about "Amazon Scams" in the article.

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[Deal du jour] La Fnac et Darty bradent le Google Pixel 10 à un très bon prix dans un pack avec une paire d’écouteurs Buds 2a incluse. Voici plus en détail le deal smartphone et écouteurs de cette 3e démarque.

Dans un message publié sur X le 22 janvier 2026, Shane Legg, Chief AGI Scientist chez Google DeepMind, annonce recruter un économiste en anticipation de l’arrivée de l’intelligence artificielle générale. Une démarche qui interroge directement la pérennité de notre modèle économique actuel.

Apple, qui a déjà confirmé à la mi-janvier une refonte de Siri s’appuyant sur l’IA Gemini de Google, pourrait aller bien plus loin en remplaçant son assistant vocal par un chatbot à la manière de ChatGPT.

Google a lancé, le 21 janvier 2026, une fonctionnalité intégrée à son IA Gemini permettant de réviser le SAT en conditions réelles. Un examen qui est fréquemment demandé pour l’admission dans de nombreuses universités aux États-Unis, ainsi que dans certains programmes internationaux.

Google has temporarily disabled YouTube's advanced SRV3 caption format after discovering the feature was causing playback errors for some users, according to a statement the company posted. SRV3, also known as YouTube Timed Text, is a custom subtitle system Google introduced around 2018 that allows creators to use custom colors, transparency, animations, and precise text positioning. Creators cannot upload new SRV3 captions while the feature remains disabled, and existing videos that use the format may not display any captions until Google restores it. The company has provided no timeline for when SRV3 will return, and its forum post notes that changes should be temporary for "almost" all videos.

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This week, Google finally shut down the official Stadia Bluetooth conversion tool... but there's no need to panic! Developer Christopher Klay preserved a copy on his personal GitHub and is hosting a fully working version of the tool on a dedicated website to make it even easier to find. The Verge's Sean Hollister reports: I haven't tried Klay's mirror, as both of my gamepads are already converted, but here's my video on how easy the process is. It's worth doing now that the pads work relatively well with Steam! I maintain that while Google made a lot of mistakes, it's an amazing example of shutting down a service the right way.

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Gemini, l’IA de Google, dispose désormais d’un bouton « Réponds maintenant », qui permet de sauter la phase de réflexion approfondie tout en conservant le modèle sélectionné, rapporte 9to5Google dans un article publié le 18 janvier 2025.

[Deal du jour] Le Pixel 9 Pro n'a rien perdu de sa superbe, malgré la sortie du 10 Pro. Il se trouve maintenant à un super prix, notamment pendant ces soldes d'hiver.